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Joy Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can…
- Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open,…
- Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's…
- Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.
- Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you,…
- Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
- Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something…
- To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to…
- ... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
- Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in…
- Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you,…
More Joy Quotes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. — Neil Armstrong
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- Vampires get the joy of flying around and living forever, werewolves get the joy of animal spirits. But zombies, they're not rich,… — Margaret Atwood
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden